My thanks to:
>>> Serge Munhoven <Serge.Munhoven_at_mema.ucl.ac.be> 05/06/99 02:20pm >>>
>>> "Dr. Tom Blinn,<tpb_at_doctor.zk3.dec.com> 05/06/99
>>> "Sharma, Tushar" <Tushar.Sharma_at_Nextel.com> 05/06/99 02:25pm >>>
>>> Richard Bemrose <rb237_at_phy.cam.ac.uk> 05/06/99 02:30pm >>>
>>> <daiken_at_regents.edu> 05/06/99 02:30pm >>>
>>> Oisin McGuinness <oisin_at_sbcm.com> 05/06/99 02:32pm >>>
>>> "David J. DeWolfe" <sxdjd_at_java.sois.alaska.edu> 05/06/99 02:36pm >>>
>>> Bruce Senn <sennb_at_union.edu> 05/06/99 02:38pm >>>
>>> Joseph Thvedt <JTHVEDT_at_larsondoors.com> 05/06/99 02:46pm >>>
>>> Harold Gabel <Harold.Gabel_at_mci.com> 05/06/99 02:46pm >>>
Your answers were very helpful.
My question was:
On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 02:11:55PM -0700, Paul Dickison wrote:
We are seeing an odd behavior with our production live data directory.
>From anywhere on the system we can type the command: "cd clivedata" and we
will be moved to the /live/clivedata directory.
For example; starting from my home directory /usr/users/pauld.
I can change directory to /usr/users/pauld/temp as we all know with a "cd
temp".
Now my working directory is /usr/users/pauld/temp.
>From here If I type: "cd clivedata" My current working directory is now
/live/clivedata. How can this be? I would expect to get a "not found"
error message.
This is just making us a little nervous that our live data could be so
visible. Could any user do a "rm -R clivedata" from any were on the
system?
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The answer was that the directory was in my search path. Via the CDPATH
command in my .profile.
"one can set the 'cdpath' environment variable which provides a
list of alternative directories to be searched to find subdirectories for
the 'cd' commands. For example, I have 'cdpath' set to:
$ echo $cdpath
/user/rb237/ ..
If, say, I have the following directory /user/rb237/banana and I'm current
in /user/fred/foo/bar I can changing directory directly to 'banana' simply
by:
$ cd banana"
Received on Thu May 06 1999 - 21:57:12 NZST